Posts Tagged ‘ecology’
Masdar City
Masdar is a planned city in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. It is an initiative by the Government of Abu Dhabi through Mubadala Development Company. Designed by the British architectural firm Foster + Partners, the city will rely entirely on solar energy and other renewable energy sources, with a sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste ecology. The city is being constructed 17 kilometres (11 mi) east-south-east of the city of Abu Dhabi, beside Abu Dhabi International Airport.
The project is headed by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC). Initiated in 2006, the project is projected to cost US$22 billion and take some eight years to build, with the first phase scheduled to be complete and habitable in 2009. The city will cover 6 square kilometres (2.3 sq mi) on a site 6.4 km2 (2.5 sq mi) in size and will be home to 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses, primarily commercial and manufacturing facilities specialising in environmentally-friendly products, and an expected 40,000 workers will commute to the city daily. It will also be the location of a university, the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), which will be assisted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Automobiles will be banned within the city; travel will be accomplished via public mass transit and personal rapid transit systems, with existing road and railways connecting to other locations outside the city. The city will be walled, to keep out the hot desert wind. The lack of cars will allow for narrow, shaded streets that will also funnel breezes from one side of the city to the other.Masdar City will be the latest of a small number of highly planned, specialized, research and technology-intensive municipalities that incorporate a living environment, similar to Novosibirsk, Russia or Tsukuba Science City, Japan.
Notable partners in the project through its Clean Tech Fund include General Electric, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Mitsubishi, Rolls-Royce, Total S.A., Mitsui and Fiat. Construction of the first phase of the project is being managed by CH2M HILL and design of the central Masdar headquarters building has been awarded to Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
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Tags: Abu, city, Dhabi, ecology, Foster, Masdar, partners, zero-carbon, zero-waste | 
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Solar Energy Breakthrough
Michael Fulton, a NASA contractor scientist who co-built new solar power systems in space is engineering solar power breakthroughs on earth.
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National Clean Energy Project, Part 2
Leaders from the public and private sectors met in Washington, DC on February 23rd to discuss ideas to reform U.S. energy policy, and pave the wave for our economic future. Individuals included Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, energy executive T. Boone Pickens, Center for American Progress Action Fund President John Podesta, and former Vice President Al Gore.
This is 2 of 4 videos from the event. Get more information at TheAutoChannel.com.
Duration : 0:53:56
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Tags: alternative fuel, clean energy, cng, ecology, Environment, gasoline, gore, natural gas, oil, pickens, propane, rei, solar, Wind-power |
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National Clean Energy Project, Part 1
Leaders from the public and private sectors met in Washington, DC on February 23rd to discuss ideas to reform U.S. energy policy, and pave the wave for our economic future. Individuals included Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, energy executive T. Boone Pickens, Center for American Progress Action Fund President John Podesta, and former Vice President Al Gore.
This is 1 of 4 videos from the event. Get more information at TheAutoChannel.com.
Duration : 0:58:54
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Tags: alternative fuel, clean energy, cng, ecology, Environment, gasoline, gore, natural gas, oil, pickens, propane, rei, solar, Wind-power |
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Portugal, home of the biggest solar plant in the world
In today’s era, when Global warming is on its high, Portugal, a small country in Southern Europe, is taking a bold stake in renewable energies. Thanks to the “great Portuguese sun”, Portugal is now home of the world’s biggest and most powerful solar energy plant. The 11-megawatt plant (located near Serpa, a small town in the country’s southern province of Alentejo) with its 52,000 photovoltaic modules, which producing 20 gigawatt hours of power each year delivers enough electricity to power 8,000 homes, is a part of Portugal’s plan to produce 45 % of its electricity from renewable energy sources. Apart from solar energy, Portugal is also turning to wind and wave power to reduce its oil imports and meet its international commitments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, having in this matters one of the most ambitious targets in the world.
If God has given to the Portuguese no oil, they will have to suffice only with their wind, their sun and their waves — and it seems that with more than 305 days of sun per year, and 1250 km of Atlantic coastline they are just about to make it.
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